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3 Street-by-Street: Székesfehérvár Deák Black Eagle Pharmacy Museum
Collection Hundreds of old medicine VISITORS’ CHECKLIST
The cobbled, car-free streets of the old town in Town Hall bottles and an amazing Practical Information
Székesfehérvár are packed with historically and Székesfehérvár’s frescoed ceiling adorn this 60 km (37 miles) SW of Budapest.
18th-century town
Baroque pharmacy, which
religiously significant buildings. For 500 years hall was originally operated until 1971. Road Map C4. * 99,000.
n Tourinform, Oskola utca 2–4,
this was the location of Hungary’s coronation built as a palace for (22) 53 72 61. ( daily, Piac tér.
church; the sarcophagus of the country’s first the Zichy family. ∑ szekesfehervar.hu
Christian king, St István, is still here today. As Transport
one of the last stands of the German Army Hetedhét Toy £ from Buda pest. @ from
Museum and
during World War II took place in these streets, Hiemer-House Budapest. Piac tér.
it is little short of a miracle that the medieval
and Baroque buildings sur rounding Városház tér
survive. Around them everything was destroyed A A
O S K O L A U T C A
– hence the bland feel of the rest of the city. U U T C T C

O S K O L A U T C A

.St Anne’s Chapel
Dating from the A A I I
15th century, St Anne’s Ó Ó K K J U H Á S Z U T C
Chapel is the only part of J J J U H Á S Z U T C A A F Ő U T C A
medieval Székesfehérvár
to have survived the
Turkish occupation.
Cistercian Church and
L A K A T O S U T C A
Monastery
The Baroque 18th-century altar
V ÁROSHÁ Z V ÁROSHÁ Z fresco in this church was painted
TÉRTÉR by local artists under the
direction of the German-born
painter Caspar Franz Sambach.
A A
. St István’s C C
Cathedral T T
The entrance to U U
the cathedral was A H H
remodelled in the C T T U U
1770s by Franz Anton U T S S
Hilde brandt. The . S S O O
statues above the A J K K
door are of István, C T Y
László and Imre. U A N
R
Z A Garden of Ruins
Á
H The vast size of the Royal
E Basilica and burial chapel that
Y once stood here can be easily
G
E imagined by tracing the
M outline of the ruins.
Clockwork

Key
Budenz Suggested route
Carmelite Monastery House
The magnificent altar (1768), . Bishop’s Palace
featuring scenes from the life of the 0 metres 50 The Baroque palace, designed by Jakob
Virgin Mary, is the work of Viennese Rieder, was built in 1801 using stone taken
master Franz Anton Maulbertsch. 0 yards 50 mainly from the ruins of the Royal Basilica.
For hotels and restaurants see pp264–269 and pp276–285

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